JAY-Z’s
4:44 notched a second week at No.1
on the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart
(BB200). The set, which bowed atop the tally a week ago, earned 87,000
equivalent album units in the week ending July 20, according to Nielsen Music.
That sum is down 67% compared to its bow of 262,000.

4:44
sold 60,737 in traditional album sales
in its second week (down 65% from 173,000).

Top
Country Albums now ranks the most popular country albums of the week, as
compiled by Nielsen Music, based on multi-metric consumption (blending traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA), and streaming equivalent albums (SEA)).

Named after the
street his grandmother Donna Hilley (Sony/ATV Music Publishing President and CEO),
a pioneering music executive and inspiration to Mitchell, once lived, the
adventurous, genre-bending EP flies in the face of the contemporary country
formula.

On the six tracks — all of which Tenpenny co-wrote — the limitless
songwriter showcases a diverse set of influences ranging from Michael Jackson
and John Mayer to the Oak Ridge Boys and R. Kelly.

The EP’s debut
track is unapologetically titled “Bitches” and is a buoyant anthem for
anyone who has ever been cheated on in a relationship. “I kept thinking about
that lousy feeling — It wasn’t about a specific girl or girls in general, but
about people who cheat. A guy can cheat and I’d call him a bitch,” said
Tenpenny. “Yeah, it can be a harsh word, but in our song, it’s about a feeling
more than a curse.”

‘Linden Ave’
features radio-friendly tracks like “Truck I Drove In High School,” “Mixed
Drinks,” and “Laid Back” — all of which exhibit
Tenpenny’s crystalline voice that dips and dives on command. Cuts like “Make
It To The Party” and “If The Boot Fits (Acoustic)” also
exemplify his hyper-creative songwriting.

“Country music
is grounded in authenticity and in blue-collar people working their asses off.
Everyone is working hard, whether it’s in the entertainment industry or with
their hands, and I want to be the voice for that,” says Tenpenny. “I also want
you to believe in everything I sing… and get lost in it.” (Source: The Country Note)

c) Streaming, (tracked by
Nielsen BDS from such services as Spotify, Muve, Slacker, Rhapsody, Rdio and
Xbox Music, among others) according to BDS it results in:

Sam Huntwith “Body Like a Back Road” (MCA Nashville) tied the record for the
most weeks spent atop Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, as it earned its 24th week at No.1 on the survey dated
Aug. 5. “Back Road” equals the 24-week reign of Florida Georgia Line’s debut
single, “Cruise,” in 2012 and 2013.

Hot Country Songs chart launched as an all-encompassing
genre survey in October 1958. (It had been purely airplay-based, powered by
Nielsen Music, since 1990; in 2012, it transitioned to its current multimetric
methodology.)

“Making history is fun, and this summertime smash keeps
going and going,”

“The audience response has been Beatle-esque at his
sold-out live shows.”

For now, at least, “Back Road” — co-written by Hunt, Zach
Crowell, Shane McAnally and Josh Osborne — is a stand-alone single following
Hunt’s debut full-length, 2014’s Montevallo, which has sold 1.3 million copies
in the United States to date, according to Nielsen Music.

As for a potential follow-up LP, “Sam has been writing,
and he’s going to do things on his time schedule,” UMGN president Cindy Mabe
recently told Billboard, adding that “Back Road” is “just a cool, laid-back
song that’s also really soulful.”

Along with its 24-week domination on Hot Country Songs,
“Back Road” likewise led Country Streaming Songs (16.7 million U.S. streams,
down 3%) and Country Digital Song Sales (46,000 downloads sold, down

less than 1%) for a 24th week each.

On Country Airplay, “Back Road” ruled for three weeks
beginning on the chart dated May 6. It declined 4-6 in its 25th week, down 4%
to 35 million audience impressions at the format. It spent a record-breaking 16
weeks in the top five.

“Yours,” written by Andrew Dorff and Jonathan Singleton, is the lead
single from Rascal Flatts’ Back to Us LP, which debuted at No.2 on the June
10-dated Top Country Albums chart. The group first scaled the Country Airplay
summit almost 15 years ago, when “These Days” reached No.1 for its first of
three weeks on top on the chart dated Nov. 30, 2002.

Old
Dominionnotched its fourth top
10on both Hot Country Songs and
Country Airplay with “No Such Thing As
a Broken Heart” (RCA Nashville). On Hot Country Songs, the track hopped
11-10; on Country Airplay, it jumped 12-8, up 7% to 30.9 million in
audience.

Sam Huntwith“Body Like a Back Road”
(MCA Nashville) held at No.1 (#7-5Digital
Songs; 46,000sales;
25-week total 1,388,000) leading the chart for a 23rd non-consecutive week.

It
rebounded 10-9 on the Hot 100 after reaching No.6. On the Hot Country Songs
chart, the single tied a historic mark: it reigned for a record-tying 25th
week, matching the rule of Florida Georgia Line's "Cruise" in
2012-13.

It
was six places behind Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee Featuring Justin Bieber with
"Despacito" which dominated
the Digital Song Sales chart for an 12th week, with 118,000 downloads sold
(down 6%) in the week ending July 20, according to Nielsen Music; the remix
with Bieber accounted for 77% of the song's sales for a second consecutive week
(and in line with its breakdown in recent weeks).

KID ROCKS- After the Republican
announced a possible run for the U.S. Senate in his home state of Michigan, “Po-Dunk”
rebounds onto Country Digital Songs at a career-best No. 3 (#31 Digital
Songs; 16,000 sales). On Hot Country Songs, it
debuted at No.27, his highest entrance.

Congrats
to Rascal Flatts, Kris Lamb, Erik Powell and the Big Machine promotion staff on landing this week’s No.1 with “Yours
If You Want It.” The chart-topper is the first single from their album
BACK TO US. Writers are Jonathan Singleton and the late Andrew Dorff. This is
FLATTS' 15th career chart-topper.

"‘Yours
if You Want It’" (Big Machine) logged8,264 radio spins (+776)
and53.78million
audience impressions (+3.962 million) with24706Total Points from 158 tracking
stations for the tracking week July 16 to July 22, 2017 and published chart
July 24th 2017.

Michael Ray Is
Most-Added With 'Get To You'

Kudos
to Adrian Michaels and the WEA crew
on notching 36 adds for Michael Ray’s“Get
To You”. The
song topped the "Most Added" board this chart week.

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